More than 300 dental professionals and students participated in the University of Florida College of Dentistry’s Sixth Annual Spring Synergy event on April 4, 2014. Spring Synergy combines continuing education, research and activities with UF American Student Dental Association (ASDA). Held this year at UF’s Emerson Alumni Hall, the event was coordinated by the college’s Office of Research, Continuing Dental Education and the ASDA student group and also included representatives from seven UF centers and institutes.
Continuing Dental Education brought in Harald Heymann, D.D.S., M.Ed., as the Kaplam Scholar who presented a three-hour course on, “Bread and Butter Adhesive and Restorative Dentistry.” Anthony Brennan, Ph.D., D.Sc., gave the Keynote Address, “The Effects of Topography on Bioadhesion.”
The afternoon agenda included an ASDA-coordinated vendor fair, oral research presentations and an awards reception with announcements for the winners of the poster and oral presentations competition. Kyulim Lee was the first place D.M.D. winner of the 2014 American Dental Association/Dentsply Student Clinician Award that includes a trip to the 2014 ADA Annual Session in San Antonio, Texas, in October 2014.
Spring Synergy Winners
Annual Poster Competition
PhD/Post-Doc/Graduate Category
1st Place: Sara Palmer
2nd Place: (tie) Kyle Heim & Zach Moye
MS/Resident Category
1st Place: Lindsay Montague
2nd Place: Marc Rasmussen
DMD Category
1st Place: (tie) Paula Cohen & Ann Decker
2nd Place: Nina Guba
Student Research Group Winners
1st Place: Paula Cohen
2nd Place: Nina Guba
Periodontal Case Studies Category
1st Place: Ali Best
2nd Place: Danial Sabra
Oral Presentation Competition
PhD/Post-Doc/Graduate Category
1st Place: Irina Velasko, “Oral Polymicrobial Infection of Integrim b6-/-Mice Demonstrates a Causal Association with Arterial Infection and Inflammation”
2nd Place: (tie) Adrienna Gauna, “Identifying MicroRNA Expression Profiles from CD14+ Monocytes as Biomakers for Sjögren’s Syndrome” & Matthew Williams, “Streptococcus mutans YlxM Modulates Ffh-FtsY Complex Formation and GTPase Activity”
MS/Resident Category
1st Place: Carl Jones
2nd Place: Thomas Currie
DMD Category
1st Place and Winner of the 2014 ADA/Dentsply Student Clinician Award: Kyulim Lee, “P.gingivalis Evades Ubiquitination NDP52/p62 Machinery and Induces Autophagosome-like Vacuoles for Intracellular Survival”
